31 occurrences in 12 translations

'Killed' in the Bible

They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli.

Verse ConceptsKilling Domesticated Animals

The Philistines deployed their forces to meet Israel, and as the battle spread Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the battlefield.

Verse ConceptsFour ThousandKilling Within Israel

The ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were killed.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, DescriptionThe Ark Moved Around

But Saul said, "No one will be killed on this day. For today the Lord has given Israel a victory!"

Verse ConceptsMercy, Examples OfRescueAmnesty

Jonathan crawled up on his hands and feet, with his armor bearer following him. The Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor bearer who was behind him also killed some.

Verse Conceptsarmor

So was the first attack [in] which Jonathan and {his armor bearer} killed about twenty men within about half of a furrow in an acre of [an] open field.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesTwenty

and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle, and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingSheepSpoils Of WarForbidden FoodGod's People Sinning

Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell them, 'Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating meat with the blood.'" All the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and killed them there.

Verse ConceptsForbidden FoodGod's People Sinning

I went out after him and attacked him, and rescued it from his mouth; and when he rose up against me, I seized him by his beard and struck him and killed him.

Verse ConceptsMouthsFacial Hair

Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”

David defeated the Philistine with a sling and a stone. Even though David had no sword, he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

Verse ConceptsAchievementdefeatSlinging Stones

David ran and stood over the Philistine. He took the Philistine's sword, pulled it from its sheath, killed him, and then he cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

Verse ConceptsSwordsDisfigurementChampionsBeheadingIndividuals RunningSkullsPeoples Who Fledheroes

As they celebrated, the women sang:Saul has killed his thousands,but David his tens of thousands.

Verse ConceptsExaggerationsPopularityComparisons

David and his men went out and killed 200 Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as full payment to the king to become his son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David as his wife.

Verse ConceptsThe Number Two HundredForeskinsGiving In Marriagemanhood

Saul listened to Jonathan’s advice and swore an oath: “As surely as the Lord lives, David will not be killed.”

There was war again. David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

Verse ConceptsCarnagePeoples Who Fled

Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch for him, so that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”

Verse ConceptsDawnWatchfulness, Of BelieversDuring One Night

Jonathan answered his father back: “Why is he to be killed? What has he done?”

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingWhy Does This Happen?What Sin?

The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take it for yourself, then take it, for there isn’t another one here.”“There’s none like it!” David said. “Give it to me.”

Verse ConceptsClothUnique Things

But Achish’s servants said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Don’t they sing about him during their dances:Saul has killed his thousands,but David his tens of thousands?”

Verse ConceptsdanceExaggerationsPopularityComparisonsA Thousand PeopleMany EnemiesKilling Many PeopleSaul And David

So the king said to Doeg, “Go and execute the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite went and executed the priests himself. On that day, he killed 85 men who wore linen ephods.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsephodsLinenThe Number EightyEighties

David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

Verse ConceptsLossIndividuals Saving Others

Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

Verse ConceptsHuntingAttempting To Kill Specific PeoplePlea Of Innocence

Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

Verse ConceptsMeatWaterNot Knowing People

But the woman said to him, “You surely know what Saul has done, how he has killed the mediums and spiritists in the land. Why are you setting a trap for me to get me killed?”

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyTrapMan TrappingSpiritism Avoidedpsychics

And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:

Verse ConceptsFlourFoodCooking, MethodsBakingKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating CattleBaking BreadKneading Dough

Isn’t this the David they sing about during their dances:Saul has killed his thousands,but David his tens of thousands?”

Verse ConceptsdanceExaggerationsPopularityComparisonsA Thousand PeopleMany EnemiesKilling Many People

They also had kidnapped the women and everyone in it from the youngest to the oldest. They had killed no one but had carried them off as they went on their way.

The Philistines fought against Israel, and Israel’s men fled from them. Many were killed on Mount Gilboa.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationenemies, of Israel and JudahLand, As A Divine GiftIsrael Fleeing

The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons and killed his sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.

Verse ConceptsKilling Named Individuals

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